Prologue |
The Flamingo's Smile / 1: |
Only His Wings Remained / 2: |
Sex and Size / 3: |
Living with Connections / 4: |
A Most Ingenious Paradox / 5: |
Adam's Navel / 6: |
The Freezing of Noah / 7: |
False Premise, Good Science / 8: |
For Want of a Metaphor / 9: |
Of Wasps and Wasps / 10: |
Opus 100 / 11: |
Human Equality is a Contingent Fact of History / 12: |
The Rule of Five / 13: |
Losing the Edge / 14: |
Death and Transfiguration / 15: |
Reducing Riddles / 16: |
To Show an Ape / 17: |
Bound by the Great Chain / 18: |
The Hottentot Venus / 19: |
Carrie Buck's Daughter / 20: |
Singapore's Patrimony (And Matrimony) / 21: |
Hannah West's Left Shoulder and the Origin of Natural Selection / 22: |
Darwin at Sea-and the Virtues of Port / 23: |
A Short Way to Corn / 24: |
Just in the Middle / 25: |
Mind and Supermind / 26: |
Seti and the Wisdom of Casey Stengel / 27: |
Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs / 28: |
Continuity / 29: |
The Cosmic Dance of Siva / 30: |
Bibliography |
Index |
Prologue |
The Flamingo's Smile / 1: |
Only His Wings Remained / 2: |
Sex and Size / 3: |
Living with Connections / 4: |
A Most Ingenious Paradox / 5: |